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Health Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Resources

The following links are provided as resources for your HIPAA questions

AMA: HIPAA Resource Links and Updates

HHS Office of Civil Rights: Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule

CMS: HIPAA

Articles

HIPAA Compliance: Despite the Constant Changes, It's Easier Than You Think -- (LTC Exchange®;4[3]:1-3)

HIPAA Checklist: What You Can Do Now -- (LTC Exchange®;4[3]:2-3)

HHS Issues Modified Privacy Rule; Met with Mixed Reaction -- (Health Policy Advisor, August 2002)

Another Perspective on HIPAA: Simplifying Health Information Management in LTC -- (Caring for the Ages, May 2002)

Medical Privacy Rule Goes into Effect -- (Health Policy Advisor, June 2001)

HIPAA FAQs Online

The Department of Health & Human Services has posted new HIPAA privacy rule FAQs and responses on the "Questions & Answers" section of its Web site.

To view the FAQs, follow this link to HHS' "Questions & Answers" page, select "Privacy of Health Information/HIPAA" from the Category drop-down list and click the "Search" button.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

I keep hearing about "HIPAA". What is this and how does it impact long term care physicians?

What are nursing facilities required to do to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)? Are these facilities required to submit their Minimum Data Set (MDS) reports using a HIPAA standard?

Legislative & Regulatory Information

Information on other HIPAA standards, including health information privacy standards

Frequently asked questions about the Administrative Simplification Compliance Act

Electronic Health Care Transactions and Code Sets Standards Model Compliance Plan and other information about "administrative simplification"